Bastards

Tom Brady’s PED Scandal, Scene 2: Manning, Matthews, and Terrorist News

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It's been over a month and half since the Boston Magazine story highlighting the relationship between Tom Brady and Dr Alex Guerrero. As was discussed here, the story was really less than news, as it was more of a compilation of facts that had been long known (or, at least,

Christmas Origins: A Heathen Explains.

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For the uninitiated, non-Christian, non-Anglican, or extra terrestrial, Christmas is a seriously weird-ass holiday. In it's current iteration in the U.S. we are, in theory, celebrating the birth of the Christian saviour Jesus Christ by bringing an evergreen tree into the house, decorating it with lights and shiny globes and things,

Dear NFL Network,

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Seeing as you are televising this week's Thursday Night Football game featuring the hapless San Diego Chargers against the resurgent and will be a force to contend with next year Oakland Raiders, I would like to make a simple humble request: CAN YOU PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER DEITY OR

Donald Trump Gets A Friendly Call

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A phone rings in a spacious, luxurious apartment in Trump Tower. A large, dead caterpillar perched atop a molding orange answers.                                                                                

Tales from the Cabal

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Setting: Midnight, a dimly lite conference room in New York City "Gentlemen, I need a status report on Project Nerf. Are we still on schedule Twisted Skinner?" Bellowed the intimidating man known as Commissioner X. Draped in a Jet green tunic and hood covered in a metal suit that makes him

Tom Brady’s PED Scandal Begins

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In you case you missed it -- and you probably did because the story was published on a Friday before a government holiday three-day weekend and, in the four hours of NFL exposure I had this weekend, it wasn't even alluded to once -- Boston Magazine (which bills themselves as

The Bastard Review, Episode Three “Effigy/Ddelw”

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(It's Episode Three because the two-hour pilot is listed as two episodes, "Pilot Parts 1&2"). I said last week's episode was overstuffed, and that was an understatement, even for a two-hour presentation. At the end of this one I was left wondering what, if anything, had happened; it seemed weirdly sparse,

The Bastard Review

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The two-hour pilot to Kurt Sutter's new FX series The Bastard Executioner is, among other things, a prime example of the difficulty inherent in making a good pilot. All pilots tempt their writers toward exposition, and the bigger the story the writer wants to tell, the greater the temptation. Few can resist,